Texas college bars students from posing for Playboy
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20
 Reuters - Baylor University in Waco, Texas,
which bills itself as the world's largest Baptist college, has
threatened to discipline female students if they pose for
Playboy magazine, which is trying to recruit models from the
college.
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Woman Allegedly Smuggles Grenade Into Jail
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20
A Salvadoran woman was detained after she tried to smuggle a military grenade and marijuana hidden in her vagina into the country's main prison, authorities said Wednesday.
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Third-Grader Takes Teacher's Van For Ride
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20
An 8-year-old boy swiped his teacher's car keys and took her minivan for a joyride, cruising safely home and into the record books as the city's youngest auto thief, police said.
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Wis. Man Pleads No Contest Over Showerhead
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20
A man accused of forcing a removable showerhead into his girlfriend's mouth and turning on the water pleaded no contest Wednesday to charges of false imprisonment and disorderly conduct.
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Cougar Bites Man Playing Fetch With Dog
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20
A state wildlife agent believes a cougar was being playful when it bit a man on the leg as he was playing stick-toss with his dog at his home near Leavenworth.
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Hardee's Sandwich Piles Meat On More Meat
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Thursday Apr,20
As if the Hardee's family of Monster Thickburgers didn't offer enough meat, the company's latest version adds steak meat on top of an already large slab of beef.
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Cougar Bites Man Playing Fetch With Dog
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
AP - A state wildlife agent believes a cougar was being playful when it bit a man on the leg as he was playing stick-toss with his dog at his home near Leavenworth.
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Fake 'Doctor' Offers Door-To-Door Breast Exams
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
People are often annoyed at door-to-door sales people, but they were downright offended at what one man was offering to women who answered his knock. Police say the man went door-to-door carrying a doctors bag and offering free breast examinations, and actually got two women to take him up on his offer.
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Deputy Finds $1M Scratch Ticket on Easter
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
AP - Klickitat County sheriff's deputy Ed L. Gunnyon found a lot more than the standard Easter egg.
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Grandmother Wins $10 Million Playing Slots
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
An 84-year-old grandmother hit it big in Atlantic City, winning $10 million in the largest slot machine jackpot in the city's history.
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Hardee's Sandwich Piles Meat on More Meat
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
AP - As if the Hardee's family of Monster Thickburgers didn't offer enough meat, the company's latest version adds steak meat on top of an already large slab of beef.
( read more )
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Wis. Man Pleads No Contest Over Showerhead
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
AP - A man accused of forcing a removable showerhead into his girlfriend's mouth and turning on the water pleaded no contest Wednesday to charges of false imprisonment and disorderly conduct.
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Third-Grader Takes Teacher's Van for Ride
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
AP - An 8-year-old boy swiped his teacher's car keys and took her minivan for a joyride, cruising safely home and into the record books as the city's youngest auto thief, police said.
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Woman Allegedly Smuggles Grenade Into Jail
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
AP - A Salvadoran woman was detained after she tried to smuggle into the country's main prison a military grenade and marijuana hidden in her vagina, authorities said Wednesday.
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English Fans Get World Cup Language Tips
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
 AP - The British government is giving English soccer fans attending the World Cup in Germany some helpful hints, including translations of phrases like, "Can I have a beer, please?"
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Thai Official Offers $25 for Crocodiles
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
 AP - A 1,000-baht ($25) reward will be given to anyone who catches one of the many crocodiles believed to be slithering through the canals of a central Thai district, an official said Wednesday, as search teams continued a hunt for the stray reptiles.
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Cage frees writer's animal instinct
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
A playwright in search of inspiration for a drama about pandas has spent much of the last week in a cage in a zoo in northern France.
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Study Rates Nations' Sexual Happiness
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
Sex is more satisfying in countries where women and men are considered equal, according to an international study of people between the ages of 40 and 80 by researchers at the University of Chicago.
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Texas Pooch Stuck In Pipe Rescued
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
A loose pooch found herself in a predicament Wednesday afternoon in North Fort Worth, Texas. Rescue crews think the dog was chasing a rabbit when her head got stuck in a large metal pipe.
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Loose Pooch Stuck In Pipe Rescued
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
Rescue crews think the dog was chasing a rabbit when her head got stuck in a large metal pipe. The curious canine was taken to animal control where vets greased her neck with baby oil and successfully removed the pipe.
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Gillespie reconsiders nude run
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
Reuters - Jason Gillespie elevated the humble role
of nightwatchman into the realm of the paranormal on Wednesday
with an unbeaten 201 on his 31st birthday.
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Queen Invites 99 To 80th Birthday Bash
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
Queen Elizabeth II has invited 99 guests to Buckingham Palace on Wednesday, and she won't need to ask anyone's age. All share the queen's birth date April 21, 1926.
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Ohio Taxpayers Late Due To Newspaper Error
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
About 400 taxpayers who mailed their returns late because of incorrect information in a newspaper will not be penalized by the federal government, an Internal Revenue Service spokesman said.
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Key West Taking Chickens Off Streets
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
AP - Some of this island city's most beloved residents are facing eviction.
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Serbia hopes to get satisfaction on Stones gig
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
Reuters - Serbia hopes to convince rock legends
The Rolling Stones to hold a concert in Belgrade this summer by
offering to fund all the preparatory work for the gig.
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Danish police find heroin stash in sword blades
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
Reuters - Danish police said on Wednesday they
had found heroin worth more than $1 million (559,000 pounds)
that had been smuggled into the country from Pakistan in the
hollowed-out blades of 25 antique sword replicas.
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Bras for miles: the cups runneth over...
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
Reuters - Women on the Mediterranean island of
Cyprus hope to form the world's longest chain of bras with the
twin aims of heightening awareness of breast cancer and winning
a place in the Guinness Book of Records.
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Global sex survey: guess who's satisfied
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
Reuters - Around the world, middle-aged and
elderly men tend to be more satisfied with their sex lives than
women in the same age group, a survey released on Wednesday
said.
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Steaua boss asks God for help against Middlesbrough
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
 Reuters - Steaua Bucharest's owner travelled to
Greece this week to ask God to help his club win the UEFA Cup.
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Cyprus seeks fame with longest bra chain
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
Reuters - Women on the Mediterranean island of
Cyprus hope to form the world's longest chain of bras with the
twin aims of heightening awareness of breast cancer and winning
a place in the Guinness Book of Records.
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PM would rather be a hockey player
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
Reuters - Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper
says that while running the world's second largest country
isn't a bad job, he'd much rather be a hockey player.
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Japanese WW2 soldier returns home after 63 years
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
Reuters - A former Japanese World War Two soldier
who recently turned up living in Ukraine set foot in his
motherland Wednesday for the first time in more than six
decades for emotional reunions with surviving relatives.
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Look Hu's promoting Starbucks
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
Reuters - Less than 24 hours into his
visit to Seattle, Chinese President Hu Jintao was already
serving as a pitchman for the city's homegrown Starbucks Corp.
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B'Stard drops Tories for Blair
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
 Reuters - The most self-serving and principle-free
parliamentarian ever to disgrace the House of Commons is back
and he'll do whatever it takes to keep Prime Minister Tony
Blair in power.
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B'Stard drops Conservatives for Blair
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
Reuters - The most self-serving and principle-free
parliamentarian ever to disgrace the House of Commons is back
and he'll do whatever it takes to keep Prime Minister Tony
Blair in power.
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Cockadoodle-Who? Hen Changes Sex
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
A hen which changed sex and became a rooster has got experts in a flap.The bird - aptly named Freaky - began life as a special breed Silver Laced Wyandotte hen more than a year ago.
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China's Hu turns Starbucks promoter
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
Reuters - Less than 24 hours into his
visit to Seattle, Chinese President Hu Jintao was already
serving as a pitchman for the city's homegrown Starbucks Corp.
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Today In History - April 19, 2006
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
Today is Wednesday, April 19th, the 109th day of 2005. There are 256 days left in the year.
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US comedian called world's 'unsexiest' man
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
Reuters - Comedian Gilbert Gottfried, the voice of
the Aflac Inc. duck in television commercials for the insurer,
was crowned "unsexiest man in the world" by an alternative
newspaper on Tuesday.
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Manila's Estrada marks birthday on witness stand
(Reuters)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
Reuters - Deposed Philippine president Joseph
Estrada celebrated his 69th birthday with a fiesta at a Manila
church on Wednesday before returning to the witness stand to
deny charges he salted away up to $80 million (45 million
pounds) while in office.
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Hunter Turns Rufus the Turkey Into Dinner
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Wednesday Apr,19
AP - For six months, Rufus the wild turkey beguiled area residents and served as unofficial greeter, pet and tourist attraction at the Jacques Spur Junction Cafe. But someone decided to turn him into dinner on the opening day of turkey hunting season Saturday.
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Club forces players to take lie detector tests
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,18
Players at a Romanian first division soccer club will be forced to take lie detector tests after losing two matches.
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Jacob The Coyote Spotted In N.Y. Park
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,18
Weeks after Hal the coyote attracted national attention with his adventures in Central Park, another one of the animals was spotted in a Bronx park on Tuesday and was given a much more formal name: Jacob Van Cortlandt.
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Idaho Man Finally Reaches 100-Pound Mark
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,18
A 5-foot-9, 22-year-old man who eats 6,500 calories a day two and a half times the average intake for an adult male has earned a special reward for breaking the 100-pound mark:
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Man Rediscovers Gift Fruitcake From 1962
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,18
Lance Nesta did what many people do when receiving a fruitcake he set it aside, only to rediscover it more than 40 years later in his mother's attic. Nesta couldn't resist taking a peek at the cake, still in its original tin and wrapped in paper.
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Idaho Man Finally Reaches 100-Pound Mark
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,18
AP - A 5-foot-9, 22-year-old man who eats 6,500 calories a day — two and a half times the average intake for an adult male — has earned a special reward for breaking the 100-pound mark:
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Man Accused of Repeated Flashing Arrested
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,18
AP - A man accused of repeatedly exposing himself to the same woman has been arrested after the woman took a picture of him naked standing on a highway and called police.
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Easter Bunny Accused of Hitting Customer
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,18
AP - The Easter Bunny has been fired — for losing his head. Arthur J. McClure, 22, who had been hired to play the Easter Bunny at a local mall has been accused of removing the head of the costume and hitting a customer, authorities said.
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Jacob the Coyote Spotted in N.Y. Park
(AP)
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,18
 AP - Weeks after Hal the coyote attracted national attention with his adventures in Central Park, another one of the animals was spotted in a Bronx park on Tuesday and was given a much more formal name: Jacob Van Cortlandt.
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Woman gives birth on road again
Posted by: The Dude, Date: Tuesday Apr,18
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